Clay Morrow

Clarence "Clay" Morrow (1949-2013) was the International President of the Sons of Anarchy MC biker gang from 1993 to 2011, succeeding John Teller and preceding Jax Teller.

Biography
Clarence Morrow was born in California in 1949, and he became a founding member of the Sons of Anarchy MC in 1967 before enlisting in the US Army as a paratrooper in 1969, serving in the Vietnam War until 1972. After his return, he opened the Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair shop with John Teller, the club president and his best friend. During the 1990s, he took part in a number of murders during the war with the Mayans MC, and he became International President in 1993 after having Teller killed for rejecting the club's arms trade with the Real IRA. He went on to marry Teller's widow Gemma Teller Morrow and made her son Jax Teller his Vice-President. The club became much more of a criminal enterprise under Morrow's leadership, but he was also a vigilante at heart, doing everything in his power to keep drug dealers and rapists out of the club's base of Charming. He later betrayed his principles by allying with the Galindo Cartel and getting the club involved with cocaine smuggling, and he was shot by Opie Winston after he discovered that Morrow had murdered his father, Piney Winston. Jax Teller then forced Morrow to surrender the presidency at knifepoint, giving Jax his president's patch. His wife coldly brushed him off while he was trying to make amends, and Morrow, whose health was declining due to his arthritis, confessed that he had murdered Piney, although he claimed that he had done so because Piney attacked him while drunk. He was later imprisoned for Damon Pope's murder, and he decided to cooperate with the state and be under protective custody rather than be murdered while in general population. He gained protection from a black gang after shanking a neo-Nazi, but SAMCRO was later able to capture him after attacking his guards as he was being transported to another prison. Teller announced that SAMCRO had unanimously decided to execute Morrow, and he was shot in the neck and five times in the chest before being thrown next to IRA member Galen O'Shea and his henchmen to make it look as if he had died in a fight with the Irish.